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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Se£t. to, 1904. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
For tdvertising relating to this department see pases ii and iii. 
Unqua-Corinthian Y. . C. Meeting. — The annual 
meeting of the Unqua-Corinthian Y. C. was held at the 
club house at Amityville, L. I., on Saturday evening, 
August 27, and the following officers were elected : Com., 
Francis A. Williams; Vice-Com., Charles P. Mollineaux; 
Rear-Com., Edward Bleecker; Sec'y, George Booth; 
Treas., Marshall A. Woodman; Board of Governors — 
William R. Bleecker, Judge E. P. Foster, Fred. B. Dal- 
zell, J. H. Ruwe, Delancey T. Smith, and Rufus ), 
Ireland. 
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Seaside Park Y. C. Officers. — At the annual meeting 
of the Seaside Park Y. C, held at the club house on 
Barnegat Bay, on Saturday evening, the following officers 
were elected : Com., Mayor Weaver ; Vice-Com., Joseph 
T. Richards ; Rear-Com., Frank W. Thacher ; Recording 
Sec'y, Herman Midler; Financial Sec'y, Llewellyn Col- 
lings ; Trustees — John D. Johnson, Joseph Cross, Alexan- 
der Middleton, H. T. Weber, and J. C. Rainear. 
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Schooner Hildegarde Meets with Accident. — The 
large iron schooner Hildegarde, owned by Mr. E. R. 
Coleman, of Philadelphia, Pa., struck a submerged wreck 
or an uncharted rock off Naskeag Point in Eggemoggin 
Reach, on the Maine coast. The yacht was on the way 
from Bar Harbor to Newport. After striking, she made 
water fast, and the sailing master, Captain Cyrus Masters, 
beached her on Hay Island to prevent her sinking. The 
owner and his guests were landed at Sargetville. A diver 
examined the vessel's bottom and made temporary re- 
pairs so that she could be towed to New London, Conn., 
for a survey and overhauling. Hildegarde was designed 
by Mr. A. S. Chesebrough and built by the Harlan & 
Hollingsworth Co., at Wilmington, Del., in 1897. She 
is 103ft. waterline, 135ft. over all, 26ft. breadth, and 16.9ft. 
draft. Several of the yachts that participated in the 
Eastern Y. C. cruise struck on the same place that Hilde- 
garde did, but were not seriously damaged. 
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Manchester Y. C. Annual Meeting. — At the annual 
meeting of the Manchester Y. C, held at the club house, 
Manchester, Monday, August 29, the following officers 
were elected : Com., S. Parker Bremer ; Vice-Com., Ed- 
win A. Boardman; Rear-Com., Augustus P. Loring, Jr.; 
Sec'y, Norman F. Greeley ; Treas., H. B. Pearson ; 
Meas., David Fenton ; Executive Committee — Edward S. 
Grew, S. Parker Bremer, Edwin A. Boardman, Horace 
B. Pearson, F. W. Fabyan, A. Farwell Bemis, George W. 
Wigglesworth, T. K. Lothrop; Regatta Committee — 
George W. Mansfield, chairman; Reginald Boardman, 
Charles E. Cotting, Jr..; R. De B. Boardman, Horace B. 
Pearson; Board of Judges — George W. Mansfield, Wil- 
liam A. Tucker, S. Parker Bremer, Edwin S. Grew, 
Arthur Woods. 
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Sloop Yacht Sibyl Sold. — Mr. H. T. Noyes, of New 
York city, has purchased the sloop yacht Sibyl from Mr. 
T. M, R. Meikleham, through the agency of Mr. Stanley 
M. Seaman, New York. The same office has also char- 
tered the sloops Sasqua to Mr. G. F. Schmidt, of New 
York city, and Carrie to Dr. Bugbee, of St. Luke's 
Hospital. 
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New Brokerage Firm. — Mr. Ernest E. Lorillard, 
formerly manager of the brokerage department of Messrs. 
Cary-Smith & Ferris, and Mr. Frank H. Walker, formerly 
manager of the brokerage department of Messrs. Gardner 
& Cox, have formed a co-partnership for the purpose of 
conducting a general yacht brokerage business. Their 
offices are at 41 Wall street, New York city. 
Ingomar's English Record and Rating. — The follow- 
ing note about the American schooner Ingomar is from 
the London Field of August 20: 
"The American schooner Ingomar, brought over by 
Mr. Morton F. Plant, Commodore of the Larchmont Y. 
C, has now finished her season, and will shortly sail 
across the Atlantic on the return voyage. The Ingomar 
was flying nineteen winning flags when she arrived in 
Southampton Water on August 18. These included two 
special prizes for the best time over the course, twelve 
first prizes, four seconds, and one third prize in twenty- 
four starts. This, we should say, is the best annual 
record ever made by an American yacht over thirty regis- 
tered tons when racing in European waters." 
We publish a list of the events in which Ingomar 
participated : 
Finish. 
June 18 — Dover-Heligoland (handicap).., 0 
June 21 — Cuxhaven (wrong course) 0 
June 24— Kiel First 
June 26— Kiel. . . .' First 
June 28— Kiel to Eckernfbrde First 
June 29 — Eckernforde to Kiel (handicap) Second 
July 1— Kiel to Travemunde First 
July 3 — Travemunde First 
July 14— Deal (handicap) First 
July 15 — Dover (collision) 0 
July 18— Dover to Ostend (handicap) ..... First 
July 22— Ostend (handicap) Second 
July 25 — Dover to Boulogne (handicap) First 
Aug. 1— Cowes, Royal London Y. C. (handicap) 0 
Aug. 3— Cowes, Royal Yacht Squadron (handicap) 0 
Aug. 4 — Cowes (handicap) First 
Aug. 5 — Cowes (handicap) First 
Aug. 9 — Ryde, Royal Victoria Y. C. (handicap)...... Second 
Aug. 11 — Ryde, Royal Victoria Y. C. (handicap) Third 
Aug. 13— Calshot Castle, Royal Southern Y.C. (handicap) . .First 
Aug. 15 — Portsmouth, Royal Albert Y. C. (handicap) ..Second 
Aug. 16— Portsmouth, Royal Albert Y. C. (handicap) First 
Starts, 22; firsts, 12; seconds, 4; third, 1; extra prizes, 2; 
total, 19. 
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Catboat Dot Sold. — The catboat Dot that was owned 
and raced so successfully by Mr. Charles T. Pierce, has 
been sold to the Cunningham Brothers of Yonkers, N. Y. 
Yachting Fixtures for \ 904. 
Members of race committees, and secretaries, will confer a t favor 
by sending notice of errors or omissions in the following lisf, and 
also changes which may be made in the future. 
SEPTEMBER. 
8. New York, autu.nn cup, Glen Ccve. 
10. Seawanhaka, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., fall, Oyster Bay. 
10. Larchmont, club race, Larchmont. 
11. Mass. Y. R. A., rendezvous at Hull. 
17. Manhasset Bay, L. I. Soiyid Y. R. A., fall, Sand's Point 
21 Riverside, L. 1. Sound Y. R. A., fall, Riverside. 
— $ — - 
Officers of A. C A. t J904. 
Commodore,— C. F. Wolters, 14 Main St. E., Rochester, N. Y. 
Secretary-Treasuier — John Sears Wright, 519 West Ave., Rochester, 
N. Y. 
ATLANTIC DIVISION. 
Vice-Commodore — L. C. Kretzmer, L. C. Schepp Building, New 
York. 
Rear-Commodore — W. A. Furman, 846 Berkeley Ave., Trenton, N.J. 
Purser — M. Ohlmeyer, Jr., 201 Palisade Ave., West Hoboken, N. J. 
Executive Committee— H. L. Pollard, 138 Front St., New York; 
N. S. Hyatt, Ossining, N. Y.; H. C. Allen, 64 Prospect St., 
Treriton, N. J. 
Board of Governors — R. J. Wilkin, 164 Montague St., Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 
Racing Board — H. L. Quick, Yonkers, N. Y. 
CENTRAL DIVISION. 
Vice-Commodore— H. W. Breitenstein, 511 Market St., Pittsburg, 
Pa. 
Rear-Commodore — Frank D. Wood, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Purser— Frank C. Demmler, 526 Smithfield St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
Evecutive Committee — Jesse J. Armstrong, Rome. N. Y. ; 
H. C. H»yt, 26 S. Goodman St., Rochester, N. Y. 
Board of Governors — C. P. Forbush, 164 Crescent Ave., Buffalo, 
N. Y. 
Racing Board— Harry M. Stewart, 85 Main St., East, Rochester, 
N. Y. 
EASTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Commodore — Henri Schaeffer, Manchester, N. H. 
Rear-Commodore — H. M. S. Aiken, 45 Milk St., Boston, Mass. 
Purser, Edw. B. Stearns, Manchester, N. H. 
Executive Committee — B. F. Jacobs. Jr., West Medford, Mass.; 
D. S. Pratt, Jr., Wellesley Hills, Mass.; Marcus Butler, 
Lawrence, Mass.; William \V. Crosby, Woburn, Mass. 
Board of Governors — Paul Butler, U. S. Cartridge Co., Lowell, 
Mass. 
Racing Board — Paul Butler, U. S. Cartridge Co., Lowell, Mass.; 
H. D. Murphy, alternate. 
NORTHERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Commodore— Chas. W. McLean, 303 St. James St., Montreal, 
Canada. 
Rear-Commodore — J. W. Sparrow, Toronto. 
Purser — J. V. Nutter, Montreal, Canada. I 
Executive Committee — C. E. Britton, Gananoque, Ont. ; Harry 
Page, Toronto. 
Board of Governors — J. N. MacKendrick, Gait, Ont. 
Racing Board— E. J. Minet, 125 Vitre St., Montreal, Canada. 
WESTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Commodore — Burton D. Munhall, care of Brooks Household 
Art Co., Cleveland, O. 
Rear-Commodore — Chas. J. Stedman, National Lafayette Bank, 
Cincinnati, O. 
Purser— Geo. A. Hall, care of Bank of Commerce, Cleveland, Q. 
Executive Committee — Thos. P. Eckert, 31 West Court St., Cin- 
cinnati, O.; Dr. H. L. Frost, 10 Howard St., Cleveland, O. 
Board of Governors — Henry C. Morse, Peoria, 111. 
How to Join the A. C. A. 
From Chapter I., Section 1, of the by-laws of the A. C. A.: 
"Application for membership shall be made to the Secretary, 
and shall be accompanied by the recommendation of an active 
member and by the sum of two dollars, one dollar as entrance 
fee and one dollar as dues for the current year, to be refunded 
in case of non-election of the applicant." 
A* C. A. Membership. 
The following have been proposed for membership to 
the A. C. A.: M. C. Berrien, Daniel P. Mitchell, Louts 
G. Kaempfer, Clifford E. Dunn, Freeman P. Land, Wil- 
liam A. Ayen, New York city; R. D. Vreeland, F. D. 
Vreeland, Paterson, N. J. ; Walter W. Forbush, Ulysses 
S. Thomas, James J. Cranus, Buffalo, N. Y. ; Clarence E. 
West, Syracuse, N. Y. ; C. A. Edson, Skaneateles, N. Y. ; 
Lacien Lyons, New Orleans, La. ; Edwin H. Coane, Jr., 
Philadelphia; Henry L. Kehrl, Newark, N. J.; H. F. 
Fisher, Toronto, Ont.; J. Cam Douglas, Smith's Falls; 
John Monahan, Brockville, Ont. ; William Seekings, 
Brockville, Ont. ; Jos. Champagne, Brockville, Ont. ; J. 
II. Rushton, Jr., Canton, N. Y. ; Porter B. Van Deusen, 
B. E. Wilson, A. H. Vayo, Rochester, N. Y. ; C. S. 
Cooper, Rome, N. Y. 
The Trail of Lewis and Clark. 
From the pen of Mr. Olin D. Wheeler, who has done so 
much to make known the resources of the Northwest, 
has just been published by G. P. Putnam's Sons an inter- 
esting and valuable work on the Lewis and Clark expedi- 
tion. The two beautiful volumes come with a special fit- 
ness in this year of 1904, and the study is the most com- 
plete and most valuable that has yet appeared. 
Mr. Wheeler is particularly well qualified for the work 
that he has undertaken. He is an old resident of the 
West, traveled over it in the days before the railroads, 
and is a good frontiersman — able to care for himself 
wherever he may be. More than that, he has always been 
deeply interested in the early West, is familiar with its 
literature, and wields a practiced and a graceful pen. 
It was when Mr. Wheeler was looking up material for 
a chapter on Lewis and Clark to appear in the 1900 issue 
of Wonderland, the beautiful annual published by the 
Northern Pacific Railroad concerning the region tributary 
to that line, that he became impressed with the necessity 
for a commentary on the journey of Lewis and Clark 
*The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1904. A story of the great 
exploration across the Continent in 1804-1806; with a description 
of the old trail, based upon actual travel over it, and of the 
changes found a century later by Olin D. Wheeler. Two 
volumes, with 200 illustrations. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New 
York. 1904 
fuller than had yet appeared. With this in mind, he began 
to gather the material for such a work, and since then he 
has followed over much of the route . traversed by the 
heroic explorers of one hundred years ago, has identified 
their trail in its entirety, located the different natural fea 
tures of the land which they mention, and sometimes has 
been able even to place their very camping sites. 
The work is a study in its best sense, and is not an 
edited reprint of the explorers' narrative. The author 
tells the story in his own words, but illustrates it by all 
the material that is accessible. The original manuscript 
journals of Lewis and Clark have been studied, as well as 
the other accounts, and these are quoted, commented on, 
and explained by the author, out of the wealth of his 
knowledge of the West of early and of later days. 
Besides going over the trail of the explorers, Mr. 
Wheeler has visited the tribes that they visited, and from 
these tribes has gathered much traditional information 
about the explorers' visit. In one case he spoke with an 
old woman who, as a child, distinctly remembered the 
coming of Lewis and Clark to her people ; and also found 
among the Blackfeet an aged man, more than one hundred 
years old, who appears to have been one of the misnamed 
party of "Minnitarees of Fort de Prairie" — really Piegan 
Blackfeet — with whom Captain Lewis had the fight in 
what is now northwestern Montana 
The question of the death of Captain Lewis is exten- 
sively gone into, and it is pointed out that it is altogether 
probable that instead of committing suicide in 1809, as has 
been believed, Captain Lewis was murdered for his money 
at the lonely tavern in Tennessee. 
In finding out for us what became of certain members 
of the expedition, concerning which we knew nothing, 
Mr. Wheeler has performed a good service to history. 
Dr. Coues, in his edition of Lewis and Clark, knew but 
little about the subordinate members of the party. Mr. 
Wheeler brings together much additional information that 
has come to light since the Coues' edition was published, 
and has himself discovered what became of William Brat- 
ton. He has much to say about the wife of Chaboneau, 
the Shoshone captive among the Minitari, who' practically 
guided the expedition westward, and who, all through 
the long ^journey, proved herself as good a "man" as 
there was in it. This was Sacagawea, Bird Woman, to 
whom it is proposed soon to erect a monument, although 
the Geological Survey has already named after her a noble 
peak in the Rocky Mountains. The history of the baby 
that Bird Woman carried on her back across the continent 
is known, and something of him Mr. Wheeler tells. 
The first volume of the work deals with the Louisiana 
Purchase, the organization and personnel of the expedition, 
its start, its winter at Fort Mandan, and its journey up 
the Missouri Rivrr to the Three Forks. The second 
volume tells of the westward journey from the Three 
Forks to and down the Columbia River; the history of 
Fort Clatsop; the start back and the journey of the two 
commanders of the expedition to the mouth of the Yel- 
lowstone, and then down the Missouri to St. Louis. 
As we go through the volume, we find material of the 
greatest interest. The untouched West, its inhabitants, 
brute and human, the slow development of the country, 
at first only in the direction of the fur trade and then, 
about forty years ago, beginning to move more rapidly, 
are described fully and with real feelingf Many fac- 
similes and many verbatim quotations are given from the 
journals of Lewis and Clark, and these excerpts tell us 
more of the real men than we could ever learn by reading 
their edited narratives. Maps of the route from start to 
finish, with all the side trips that were made, help us to 
a very complete and intelligent comprehension of the most 
important journeying ever undertaken in America. 
The task of finding fault with good work that has been 
done is notoriously an easy one, and the writing of two 
large volumes presupposes an occasional slip or error. 
Mr. Wheeler says that Arikara seems to be a Mandan 
word. This is a mistake. The tribal name unquestionably 
comes from the Pawnee word A-ri'-ki or U-ri'-ki, mean- 
ing a horn, and the tribal name for this section of the 
Caddoan family is thus the precise equivalent of the name 
of the main Pawnee tribe, which comes from Pa-ri'-ki, 
meaning also horn. 
The illustrations and maps which adorn the pages of 
"The Trail of Lewis and Clark" are many and beautiful. 
Some of the illustrations are in colors, and all are spirited 
and possess the true flavor of the old West. Each one 
serves its especial purpose, and none could have been 
omitted without detracting somewhat from the value of 
the book. 
Mr. Wheeler has given us in "The Trail of Lewis and 
Clark" a model of what an American historical study 
should be, and every one who is interested in the early 
history of the western country, and desires to be informed 
as to the happenings of those historic days which began a 
century ago, must have this work at his hand for con- 
tinuous reference. That it must be in all public libraries 
goes without saying. 
An Unfortunate Influence. 
OF Mistuh Jones, he 'low'd dat he 
Wus as sure of heaven as a man could be; 
An' he sniffed aroun' an' he put on airs, 
An' he wouldn' 'ten' to his own affairs; 
An' he acted in such a haughty way 
Dat de' neighbors 'lowed dey wished he'd stay 
To home, instid of his braggin' aroun', 
'Cause we couldn't all travel whah he was bound. 
But de very worst about Mistuh Jones 
Wif his braggin' in dem contemptuous tones, 
Was de way dat some of us went an' did. 
We got so reckless we done back-slid. 
An' we had our doubts, as sure as fate, 
'Bout gettin' in past de pearly gates. 
An' some of 'em said dat dey didn't much care 
If ol' Mistuh Jones was a-goin' there. 
— Washington Star. 
JfcifU §mg$ and fflztterg. 
National Rifle Association. 
The interstate shooting tournament of the National Rifle Associ- 
ation of America began at Sea Girt, N. J., on Sept. 3, under 
favorable conditions. 
The Wimbledon cup match took place on Sept. 3. The com- 
